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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This month, as he completes his eighth U. S. tour, even the most cautious critics are agreed that Vladimir Horowitz is, as Paderewski lately said, the greatest of the younger pianists. For the sleek young Russian has survived his superficial successes and grown to think more of music and less of showing off his amazing technique. He proved his maturity to New Yorkers last month when he played with Arturo Toscanini and gave real contemplation to Brahms's First Concerto. He proved himself again in Chicago last week where audiences cheered him wildly. For the Chicago concerts motherly Signora...
Nominated for the eighth quinquennial election to New York University's Hall of Fame were 76 late, famed U. S. citizens. Among them: Author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony; Matthew B. Brady, who photographed 3,500 battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber...
...Chaldees (4000 B. C.). One city after another came to light. Last month diggers under Charles Bache of Philadelphia's University Museum laid bare the Eleventh Level which they assigned to 3750 B. C. Before them was evidence of a civilization as high as that at the Eighth Level...
...Bache found crumbled temple and dwelling walls, spindles, loom weights, hammer-stones, hones, knives and scrapers for leather-working and basketmaking, combs, ointment mortars, receptacles for the kohl with which the women darkened their eyelids. On this level also were tombs which had sunk through the silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious...
...Club has been fortunate in securing the services of Edward P. Goodnow '17 as director. "Sarah Simple" will be the eighth play which Goodnow has directed for the Club and also his seventh Milne play. In 1921 he directed the Club's production of Milne's "Wurzel-Flummery" and in 1931 Milne's "Success," which later appeared in New York as "Give Me Yesterday...